Quotes About Competence

two basic conditions for acquiring a skill: an environment that is sufficiently regular to be predictable an opportunity to learn these regularities through prolonged practice

In other words, people who spend their time, and earn their living, studying a particular topic produce poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have distributed their choices evenly over the options. Even in the region they knew best, experts were not significantly better than nonspecialists.

As expected, the effect of facial competence on voting is about three times larger for information-poor and TV-prone voters than for others who are better informed and watch less television.

The important conclusion from this research is that an algorithm that is constructed on the back of an envelope is often good enough to compete with an optimally weighted formula, and certainly good enough to outdo expert judgment.

Firmly resolve that you will hire the candidate whose final score is the highest, even if there is another one whom you like better

Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree.

Expertise is not a single skill; it is a collection of skills, and the same professional may be highly expert in some of the tasks in her domain while remaining a novice in others.

As expected, the effect of facial competence on voting is about three times larger for information-poor and TV-prone voters than for others who are better informed and watch less television. Evidently

The question we face is whether this candidate can succeed. The question we seem to answer is whether she interviews well. Let's not substitute.

As you become skilled in a task, its demand for energy diminishes.

people tend to be overly optimistic about their relative standing on any activity in which they do moderately well.

Du kannst was man können muss, aber du bist leer.

Give your due diligence to understanding business or you will have no place in it.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

unqualified success. As you know, Bishop Lorenzi

the world was not a dangerous place spinning rapidly out of control; it was a problem to be managed by men and women of competence and training.

For Rebecca, the world was not a dangerous place spinning rapidly out of control; it was a problem to be managed by men and women of competence and training.

Anyone claiming to be perfect at what they do is proof they don't know what the hell they're doing.

Supervisors who bully employees reveal their lack of competence in reasoning.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

As the Duke of Wellington put it, "No man fears to do that which he knows he does well.

Awareness is good, but without skills and ability tied to that awareness, all you have is anxiety. —Tony Blauer

Awareness is good, but without skills and ability tied to that awareness, all you have is anxiety.

Skills which are so great as to amaze those of lesser talents are always mistrusted. Thus